I’ve tried to start this post a dozen times. Every time I try to put how I feel into words, I draw a blank. I guess that’s how I’ve been feeling since Tuesday. Blank. Empty. Numb. Stricken. Donald Trump—a man who has admitted both to sexually assaulting women (note at the bottom of the article…

Almost every morning that I get up and run, I have to wonder: who the hell am I? I am a person who hates getting up early and who hates running, and yet I’m doing both—I’m even doing one in order to do the other. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,…

Rough one today. I spent most of last week battling that whole “I know I feel like crap because I haven’t been exercising but I feel like crap so I don’t want to exercise” feedback loop, and only ran once. I didn’t write about it because (a) I am lazy and (b) I ran on the treadmill…

Andrew and I are visiting his parents this weekend to go to the annual barn dance given by their neighbors. I haven’t missed one since we started dating; this’ll be my eighth in a row. He’s only missed one in something like 15 years, and it’s when he had to go to BOLC during the…

I actually felt pretty good today. Aside, of course, from the fact that I never *actually* want to get out of bed, it wasn’t quite as hard to get up as I anticipated—especially considering that I went to bed at 11 and set the alarm for 6. Something that I’m starting to struggle with is…

I pretty much wrote last week off as a loss after I only managed to run on Thursday. I had a full weekend off for the first time in ages and I spent most of it laying around and napping, and I think I needed that. But I promised myself that this week I’d run…

I’ve been super lazy this week and haven’t gotten out for a run until today. I was going to go yesterday, but then I looked at how much time the workout would actually take and decided I had already snoozed past a good time to get up (not strictly true, but I was looking for…

Most women I know would agree that a new pair of shoes can change your outlook on life. When you’re having a crappy day, a cute pair of flats or a new pair of pumps (that obviously make your legs look amazing) can really turn your day around. I had one of those days today.…

Created in the spirit of the Linnaean classification of plants, animals, and fungi (I’m sure y’all remember that King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti), Kelly’s Reader Species infographic classifies all the different types of readers.

When Madeline and Daphne were young, they were almost as close as sisters, spending their summers helping out at Madeline’s grandmother’s inn…until the fateful night when Madeline is attacked by a guest at the inn, and her grandmother and the inn’s caretaker take matters into their own hands. The secret of what happened to Madeline’s…

I’ve read a ton of debut novels this year—I think more than I ever have! Most of them were really incredible, and these ten authors have me chomping at the bit to read their sophomore novels: Celeste Ng. Her debut, Everything I Never Told You, is one of the best books I read in 2015…

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is a Halloween-themed freebie, and the gals over at The Broke and the Bookish (of whom I count myself one!) decided to do scariest book covers. Here are my 10; check out the collaborative post over there for even more scary covers! The Bad Seed Before I Go to Sleep Reconstructing…

Elsa is almost eight, and she’s different. Her granny is her only friend, and together they fly off every night to the Land-of-Almost-Awake, the fantasyland where all Granny’s fairy tales take place. When Granny dies, she leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, and Elsa must deliver them. These letters…

I’d been lusting after this book since I first heard about it early in 2015, and I received it in the mail the day it came out, but I only just got around to reading it thanks to the insane influx of books from BEA. I’ve been starting and giving up on a lot of…

A while ago, I discussed both deal breakers and deal makers in a short post series on The Broke and the Bookish. Most of these, however, had to do with the actual writing of the books in question, like if a book has a forced love triangle or is written in a style I don’t…

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